(PTI) Veteran journalist B Muralidhar Reddy, who worked in The Hindu for several decades during which he was also its Pakistan and Sri Lanka correspondent, has died. He was 64.
Reddy passed away at Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital on Saturday night after a brief illness.
Reddy started off as a city reporter when The Hindu launched its Delhi edition in the 1980s. As a political correspondent, he covered many major events for the newspaper. He also reported the demolition of the Babri Masjid in December 1992.
In 2000, The Hindu posted him to Islamabad as its Pakistan correspondent and then to Colombo as the newspaper’s Sri Lanka correspondent.
An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Reddy worked with Mainstream and National Herald before joining The Hindu. He is survived by his wife Aparna Srivastava, a former PTI journalist, and son Manan.
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